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Anais Urlichs · 42 min · intermediate · English

Anton Putra · 38 min · intermediate · English

Erratic Engineer · 36 min · advanced · English

Matt Huang · 32 min · intermediate · English

TrainWithShubham · 38 min · advanced · English

Simplilearn · 42 min · intermediate · English
Rapid-fire coverage of core concepts and tooling: Linux, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Jenkins, Ansible and cloud — maps directly to the concept/tooling round.
TechWorld with Nana · 35 min · intermediate · English
Deploy Prometheus + Grafana to Kubernetes via Helm/Prometheus Operator for production monitoring and alerting
Rayan Slim · 27 min · intermediate · English
End-to-end GitOps deploy using ArgoCD with GitHub, Helm and Kustomize for the full pipeline.
TechWorld with Nana · 48 min · intermediate · English
Build a GitOps CD pipeline: ArgoCD with Git as source of truth deploying a containerized app to Kubernetes.
TechWorld with Nana · 18 min · intermediate · English
Terraform fundamentals: providers, state and modules — the language and plan/apply workflow.
Cloud Champ · 26 min · intermediate · English
Hands-on project: provision AWS infrastructure (VPC/EC2) with Terraform end-to-end as code.
IBM Technology · 6 min · beginner · English
Optional overview angle: what an SRE does day to day, reliability vs feature velocity, and the operations/incident-response role framing.
Google Cloud Tech · 8 min · intermediate · English
Authoritative Google breakdown of SLI vs SLO vs SLA and error budgets — exactly the reliability-targets distinctions interviewers test.
Aqua Security Open Source · 12 min · intermediate · English
Hands-on shift-left scanning with Trivy: detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and secrets in container images and IaC, the practical companion to the concept video.
TechWorld with Nana · 8 min · beginner · English
The shift-left mindset: why security moves into the pipeline early and becomes a developer responsibility — the conceptual frame for scanning and secrets management.
TechWorld with Nana · 17 min · intermediate · English
Prometheus architecture and components (server, pull model, exporters, Pushgateway, Alertmanager, storage) — the metrics pillar foundation before building dashboards.
Tech with Lucy · 18 min · intermediate · English
Different angle: securing the VPC with Security Groups vs Network ACLs.
Travis Media · 40 min · intermediate · English
Covers CIDR/IP addressing, subnetting, public/private subnet architecture and routing with hands-on demos.
Be A Better Dev · 6 min · beginner · English
Serverless vs server-based angle: when to reach for Lambda over EC2.
Be A Better Dev · 14 min · beginner · English
Plain-language overview of EC2 (compute), S3 (storage) and Lambda (serverless) and how they relate.
Tech with Lucy · 22 min · intermediate · English
Different angle: focuses on trust policies and how roles are assumed, reinforcing least-privilege thinking.
TechWorld with Nana · 20 min · beginner · English
Clear conceptual breakdown of IAM users, groups, roles and policies from a trusted DevOps educator.
Alta3 Research · 13 min · beginner · English
Hands-on playbook authoring: tasks, modules and idempotency explained clearly.
TechWorld with Nana · 17 min · beginner · English
Canonical intro to what Ansible is and how idempotent playbooks configure servers.
edureka! · 30 min · intermediate · English
Optional angle: structuring inputs/outputs into reusable modules with a hands-on example
Cloud With Raj · 18 min · intermediate · English
Workspaces to isolate state across dev/staging/prod from one config
freeCodeCamp.org · 52 min · beginner · English
Full IaC course: declaratively provision cloud infrastructure with Terraform and manage state safely.

TechWorld with Nana · 35 min · intermediate · English
Declarative vs scripted Jenkinsfile, stages, conditionals, env vars, parameters and Groovy scripts.

TechWorld with Nana · 32 min · beginner · English
Workflow file syntax, events/actions, and building plus pushing a Docker image in a CI pipeline.

DevOps Directive · 12 min · intermediate · English
Visual comparison of blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments for risk-minimized releases.

TechWorld with Nana · 22 min · beginner · English
Core CI vs CD vs continuous deployment concepts and the problems pipelines solve, using real engineering scenarios.

Cloud Champ · 20 min · intermediate · English
Hands-on Horizontal Pod Autoscaler with resource requests/limits and the metrics server to scale on CPU and memory.

TechWorld with Nana · 14 min · intermediate · English
Health probes for production reliability: how to configure liveness, readiness, and startup probes correctly.

Anton Putra · 40 min · intermediate · English
Different angle on persistent storage: emptyDir, CSI drivers, StorageClasses, PVs/PVCs alongside config objects.

TechWorld with Nana · 16 min · intermediate · English
App configuration via ConfigMaps and Secrets, including mounting them as volumes for real-world config-file use cases.

ByteByteGo · 6 min · beginner · English
Crisp visual model of the control plane, nodes and core objects that run containers at scale.
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TechWorld with Nana · 60 min · beginner · English
Architecture, control plane, nodes, pods, deployments, and services explained with a hands-on demo deploying a web app with MongoDB.

TechWorld with Nana · 22 min · intermediate · English
Optional different angle: bridge/host/none/custom networks and how Compose services communicate

Chayan Deokar · 12 min · intermediate · English
Step-by-step Docker Compose: define, launch and test a multi-service local environment.

TechWorld with Nana · 29 min · intermediate · English
Multi-stage builds, minimal/pinned base images, non-root user, .dockerignore, layer caching for small secure reproducible images

Programming with Mosh · 56 min · beginner · English
End-to-end Docker fundamentals: how containers isolate processes and how images are built up from layers.

KodeKloud · 11 min · beginner · English
Optional gentle intro to GitOps principles and the single-source-of-truth model.

DevOps Toolkit · 19 min · intermediate · English
Why Git becomes the single declarative source of truth driving CI/CD and infrastructure.

DevOps Directive · 12 min · intermediate · English
Optional different angle: branching-strategy tradeoffs — trunk-based vs Git Flow vs GitHub Flow.

GitHub · 33 min · beginner · English
Official walkthrough of branches, pull requests and review gates as the GitHub Flow collaboration loop.

GitHub · 36 min · intermediate · English
Optional deeper angle: how Git models commits, trees, blobs and SHAs under the hood so history stops feeling scary.

freeCodeCamp.org · 41 min · beginner · English
Everyday professional Git workflow: branching, merging, history, stash and rebase so merges stop being scary.

IT k Funde · 24 min · intermediate · English
Broader primer on IP, subnets, DNS, DHCP, gateways, NAT and firewalls — the protocol primitives behind connectivity.

Cloud Champ · 18 min · intermediate · English
Networking essentials framed for DevOps: IP, ports, DNS and debugging connectivity on real servers.

freeCodeCamp.org · 48 min · beginner · English
Hands-on Bash scripting: variables, conditionals, loops, functions and exit codes for safe operational automation.